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Archive for October, 2005

Blogs attack!

By debashish • Oct 28th, 2005 • Category: Miscellany

Forbes magazine has an thought-provoking outburst against the bloggers:
Web logs are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective. Their potent allies in this pursuit include Google and Yahoo.
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South Asian earthquake victims: You can also help

By debashish • Oct 27th, 2005 • Category: Life-Around

Only when a natural calamity strikes we realize our limitations. In the recent earthquake that struck India and Pakistan thousands lost their lives and still more await help in the strenuous weather conditions that will only worsen in the wake of ensuing winter. Desipundit is the flag-bearer of a unique initiative by the Indi-blogdom that [...]



No IT Returns for salaries people. Really?

By debashish • Oct 27th, 2005 • Category: Life-Around

When it is the Government on the other side, nothing comes to you without the fine print. I came across this interesting comment by a reader on FM's announcement that the “Salaried class would not be required to file Income Tax returns from next year on provided there was no income from any other source”.
A [...]



Introducing Avaran ~ Blogger templates

By debashish • Oct 27th, 2005 • Category: Technology

I have been planning this for some time and it feels good bringing to you, Aavaran, a site where you can get new Blogger templates with, perhaps for the first time, ready templates for Hindi blogs. Apart from new templates that I propose to add, most of the templates would be adapted from popular themes [...]



Game-shows on Indian telly: hot again

By debashish • Oct 26th, 2005 • Category: Entertainment

KBC has been the impetus for all the Game shows on the Indian tele, but none could fare better. Channels were in a tizzy during KBC?s first spell, desperate for their share of the pie they went ahead with hastily assembled murky imitations like one hosted by Anupam Kher on Zee or the one by [...]



God bloggers on the prowl?

By debashish • Oct 17th, 2005 • Category: Miscellany

David is back with interesting facts about the blogosphere. The figures may not be too accurate but the growth still seems bizarre to me, 70000 blogs created every day. Though the study shows that as much as 8% of these are spam or fake blogs, it is still a huge number! Technorati thinks that lot [...]



Think before you write

By debashish • Oct 17th, 2005 • Category: Personal

I have been simply amazed by the IIPM episode and the happenings in the Indiblogdom for the past few days. While it cannot be denied that bloggers are supposed to remain united at times of distress such as this, especially when the episode took a bad turn and one of the vociferous blogger has to [...]



Bye Bye Bloglet!

By debashish • Oct 6th, 2005 • Category: Technology

I was not quite aware of how many readers have subscribed to this blog through Email. Today I checked Bloglet and found that there are 50+ readers who have subscribed, but as usual, Bloglet indicated that the emails were not being sent lately.
Bloglet’s has been one of the most unique and pioneering service, but apart [...]